29.5047, Calls: Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-5047. Wed Dec 19 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.5047, Calls: Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:20:36
From: Zach Wellstood [zcw209 at umd.edu]
Subject: Eleventh Heritage Language Research Institute

 
Full Title: Eleventh Heritage Language Research Institute 

Date: 10-Jun-2019 - 13-Jun-2019
Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA 
Contact Person: Maria Polinsky
Meeting Email: polinsky at umd.edu
Web Site: http://nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/events/institute/2019/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

Heritage languages in Unexpected Places
Director: Maria Polinsky, (University of Maryland, College Park)
Organizer: Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan (University of New Mexico)

For over a decade, research in the field of heritage languages (HLs) has
focused on understanding the linguistic properties of HLs in all contexts from
childhood to adulthood. This understanding has informed best practices in HL
education, helping heritage speakers develop higher proficiency through
language programs that address their linguistic and identity needs. The HL
research that underpins these findings has focused on more widely-studied
languages such as Spanish, Russian, or Chinese.

However, HLs are everywhere, not only in these communities nor in typical
immigrant environments. More needs to be done to understand the effects of
language development and education in understudied bilingual populations with
respect to heritage development. This Institute will bring together scholars
who have long worked on more familiar HLs as well as researchers working on
Native American languages (which often have heritage language varieties), sign
languages (in the context of bimodal bilingualism), creole languages (as a
paradigmatic case of language contact), and several lesser-studied HLs.
Methods needed to address the linguistic and sociocultural dynamics
experienced by these bilingual populations can be refined in comparison with
established teaching methods. Joint discussions at the Institute will further
our understanding of language change under intense contact and will allow us
to propose new policies and educational strategies needed to maintain and
promote heritage languages among their speakers.

Join us for this year’s Heritage Language Research Institute on June 10-13,
2019, at the University of New Mexico. The Institute will feature
presentations by researchers, discussion sessions, and two round table
sessions: (1) on HL support in schools with the aim of helping heritage
speakers succeed personally, linguistically, and academically, and (2) on
lesser-studied HLs in larger HL contexts.


Call for Papers:

http://nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/events/institute/2019/call

Special session on lesser-studied heritage languages

The Institute will include a special session on lesser-studied heritage
languages. If you would like to present a paper or poster at this special
session, please submit your abstract (500 words) by February 1, 2019. We
welcome experimental or theoretical studies on heritage languages, other than
Spanish, Russian, or Chinese that focus on any linguistic aspect of heritage
language structure, acquisition or maintenance. Your abstract should include
an explanation of how your research fits into a larger HL context. The
abstracts should be submitted electronically by clicking on the link above.

Submit your proposal here: https://ucla.in/2Ta4vJd




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